Do I have to plant both fingers?

Many people cannot pick at all with their ring finger planted -- seems like there's a connection between the ring and middle finger and it's sometimes difficult to "disconnect" the two.

Is it necessary to plant the ring finger? No, not really. Not if it doesn't interfere with your picking. Many excellent, professional pickers only plant the pinkie and let the ring finger dangle and do it’s thing.

If you want to try and plant both fingers here's a couple of suggestions by some that have accomplished doing it.

Take a rubber band and secure the ring and pinkie fingers together (loosely, so you don't interfere with circulation). Make sure that both fingers are touching the head rather than having one finger down and just attaching the other finger to it with the tape or rubber band.

Other people have used 2-faced tape on the banjo head and stuck both fingers on that and that helped.

It usually takes about 2 weeks in using one of these methods before you can practice without anything holding your fingers together.

Your speed will go down at first but if you persist it should work.

For me, I just plant my pinkie. It works for me!

Keep on Pickin'

Angie

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